SIAM on NGT order on diesel vehicles

On the orders of the NGT passed recently on stopping registration of diesel vehicles in Delhi-NCR, SIAM in a press release said, “While SIAM respects the views of the NGT, we believe that this order is not based on scientific facts or study. Delhi Government has already commissioned a Source Apportionment study with IIT Kanpur. The NGT could have waited for the study to enable it to take a rational decision based on data so that meaningful impact on air quality could be achieved. Whatever we have seen on the study reported in the media, only 2.5 per cent of PM pollution is accounted by both petrol and diesel cars. Banning registration of clean BS IV (Euro 4 equivalent) diesel cars meeting the stringent international emission norms will therefore not have any impact on the air quality of Delhi. BS IV diesel vehicles are very clean and it would be wrong to claim them as unclean which would also undermine the GoI regulations on vehicular emissions.”